Emergency Dept Tech

Job Summary and Responsibilities
As an ED Tech, you will provide crucial support and direct patient care in the fast-paced Emergency Department, ensuring efficient operations and compassionate assistance during critical moments.

Every day you will expertly assist with patient admissions and discharges, perform vital signs and basic medical procedures, maintain a clean and organized environment, and meticulously document observations to support the nursing staff and physician team.

To be successful, you will demonstrate outstanding adaptability, strong communication skills, and a calm, proactive demeanor, contributing significantly to timely patient care and a smooth-running ED.

• Provide for Patient's Personal Care
  
  
  
  
  
  • Provides direct patient care under the supervision of a licensed nurse within the scope of practice of a nursing assistant. Includes: activities of daily living, vital signs, lab draws, EKG's, ambulation, meals and routine treatment procedures. Demonstrates proficiency in phlebotomy and EKG's. Able to assist physician with procedures as necessary.
  
  
  
  • Reports all observed symptoms, reactions, treatments, and changes in the patient's condition to the licensed nurse.
  
  
  
  • Records patient care measures and treatments given on the patient's electronic medical record.
  
  
  
  • Performs EKG's on all chest pain patients.
  
  
  
• Assist patient with toilet needs
  
  
  
  
  
  • Provide bedpan, urinal or commode
  
  
  
  • Assist with elimination aides: Colostomy care, enemas
  
  
  
• Maintain a clean and neat environment
  
  
  
  
  
  • Make beds
  
  
  
  • Tidy patient's area
  
  
  
  • Keep patient's equipment clean
  
  
  
  • Provide for patient safety and care of valuables
  
  
  
  • Ensures that all emergency department rooms and the nursing station are fully stocked with supplies.
  
  
  
• Assist patient with diet and nourishment
  
  
  
  
  
  • Assist with meals
  
  
  
  • Feed patients, as necessary
  
  
  
  • Keep patients supplied with fresh drinking water if able to have fluids to drink
  
  
  
  • Measure and record oral intake and output.
  
  
  
• Nursing bundle
  
  
  
  
  
  • Update white board as related to position responsibilities
  
  
  
  • Perform hourly rounding as directed by team leader
  
  
  
  • Document on rounding log pain level, positioning and toilet needs.
  
  
  
• Communication
  
  
  
  
  
  • Maintains confidentiality of patient information at all times.
  
  
  
  • Maintains open and effective communication with co-workers, ancillary staff, physician, patients and family members at all times.
  
  
  
  • Answers the phone in a polite and professional manner.
  
  
  

Job Requirements
Required

• High School GED General Studies or Equivalent technical training, upon hire or
• High School Graduate General Studies or Equivalent technical training, upon hire and
• 1-2 years of acute care experience and
• 1 year of emergency department
• Certified Nursing Assistant: CA, upon hire or
• Certified Clinical Medical Assistant, upon hire or
• Registered Medical Assistant AMT, upon hire or
• Cert Med Asst - MMCI, upon hire or
• Medical Assistant Certification: CA, upon hire or
• Emergency Medical Technician: CA, upon hire and
• Basic Life Support - CPR, upon hire

Where You'll Work

Bakersfield Memorial Hospital includes 385 general acute beds, 48 licensed critical care beds, 13 state-of-the-art surgical suites, and a full-service Emergency Department with an Accredited Chest Pain Center and Nationally Certified Stroke Center. In addition, we offer a beautiful Family Care and Birthing Center, the Lauren Small Children's Center including the area's only Pediatric Intensive Care Unit, Family Care Center, a Level II NICU, the Sarvanand Heart, and Brain Center with Kern County's first Bi-Plane Interventional Suite, the Center for Wound Care and Hyperbarics, and many more services. Memorial Hospital is a Children’s Miracle Network Hospital and is home to the Bakersfield Ronald McDonald House. Memorial Hospital is a member of Dignity Health and is a trusted community partner, serving residents of Bakersfield and Kern County with quality, compassionate care since 1956. Click here to learn more about Bakersfield Memorial Hospital.

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